Greenhorn Weekly Countdown September 23-30

Your ideas are valuable, innovative and profitable but they are not perfect. Boston has 58 startup networking events and office hours to help find the community support and insight that will rehash, reuse and recycle your ideas into lucrative projects.

/ / / Monday, Sep 24

What Technology Will Dominate Retail?

Description: Although self checkout is a hot topic, turns out that NFC will only be one of the technologies that retailers will and are flocking to.  The challenge is to get shoppers into the store. And once in the store to have stellar store operations to make sure they shop—and buy.  Our stellar panel, who are key innovators and dominators in retail will debate and discuss this very topic.  Current market research on Retail trends and purchasing will be shared.

Panelists:

• Joe Andraski, President and CEO, VICS
• Chris Sellers, CEO of Mobean
• Michael Wehrs, CEO of Scanbuy
• Paul Steinberg, CTO of Motorola Solutions
• Scott Clements, President, Tyco Retail Solutions

Moderator: Ann Grackin, CEO of ChainLink Research

Time: Monday, Sep 24, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Place: MIT Stata Center, Room 32-155 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139
Cost: $10-$30 , free for all students

Web Innovators Group #WebInnoRocket

Description: Are you ready for #WebInnoRocket?  This isn't your typical WebInno... it's a Rocket.  We have some TBA special features for this upcoming event after Labor Day. Stay tuned for more details, and register above to join us for an evening showcase of internet and mobile innovation.  Join the community of entrepreneurs, developers, creatives, startup geeks, and technology executives to share and exchange ideas with the latest in web startups.
Time: Monday, Sep 24, 6:30pm - 6:30pm
Place: Royal Sonesta Cambridge, 40 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge 02142
Cost: Free for all (except service providers)

/ / / Tuesday, Sep 25

How to Make User Experience (UX) Your Company's Strategic Advantage

Description: User experience is not just design but a strategic and holistic endeavor. If you're approaching UX as a marketing or design problem then you've got it all wrong. The practice of user experience is most successful when focused on strategy, vision, and planning, not just design and execution. UX, when done correctly, adds value by bringing design best practices to strategic planning. The bottomline impact and branding implications should be felt across all aspects of the business and not just limited to product and service design.
Time: Tuesday, Sep 25, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Place: Intelligent.ly 500 Harrison Avenue, FL 3R Boston, MA 02118
Cost: $30

September EdTechup: Demo Night

Description: Several early stage education technology companies will pitch their ideas and get feedback from the audience. 

/ / / Wednesday, Sep 26

Powering Mobile and Web Applications with Google AppEngine

Description: We have a great session planned that will appeal to AppEngine developers, mobile developers and web developers. Daniel Hermes Developer Programs Engineer on the Google App Engine team in Moutnain View California will join us to give a talk and coding examples.
Time: Wednesday, Sep 26, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Place: Google Chatham Cafe 3 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA

/ / / Thursday, Sep 27

Lean Startup Circle Boston September Meetup

Description: On the final Thursday of each month, the Lean Startup Circle Boston meets to discuss a variety of topics related Customer Development and The Lean Startup methodology. The format of our meetups range from Speaker Presentations, to Group Case Studies, to informal mixers, and more. Stay tuned to this Meetup.com group as we announce each month's agenda a few weeks in advance, as well as that month's location.
Time: Thursday, Sep 27, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Place: Microsoft New England Research & Development Center (NERD) One Memorial Drive Suite 100 Cambridge, MA

/ / / Saturday, Sep 29

B2BCamp Boston

Description: What, you haven’t heard about B2BCamp? Well then the quick pitch… “B2BCamp is the only unconference specifically for B2B marketing and sales professionals.”- Mike Volpe, Chief Marketing Officer at HubSpot And it’s going down in Cambridge, MA on September 29th. Hey isn’t that a Saturday? Yes, you’re absolutely right, a small bit of your weekend dedicated to helping you move the needle in your job. (Don’t worry, it’s an away weekend for the Sox – not that it matters.)
Time: Saturday, Sep 29, 8:00am - 4:00pm
Place: Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center One Memorial Drive Suite 100 Cambridge, MA 02142
Cost: FREE

Event of the Week Sponsored by Microsoft NERD

B2BCamp Boston

Why? Gather with marketing and sales professionals to discuss problems you're facing and share expertise on ares that matter to you - unconference style. 

Student Event of the Week

What Technology Will Dominate Retail?

Why? Attend this event for free to learn from leaders in retail technology across the country.